- CrateDB is available as self-deploy to developers, and commercially on-prem and in any cloud including on Microsoft Azure and AWS
- CrateDB is a distributed SQL database built on top of a NoSQL foundation
Crate.io, developer and supplier of CrateDB, the purpose-built database optimized for machine data use cases, announced that CrateDB is now a fully open source database solution. With today’s release of CrateDB 4.5, all enterprise features of the database are available under the Apache 2.0 open source license for the self-deploy Community edition. CrateDB is available as self-deploy to developers, and commercially on-prem and in any cloud including on Microsoft Azure and AWS.
Eva Schönleitner, CEO, Crate.io said, “We are incredibly excited to make CrateDB a completely open sourced database, which will enable developers to use the application, enhance with add-ons or extensions, and contribute back. Having direct engagement with our open source community also provides us valuable product feedback that we incorporate into our long-term product roadmap. Commercially, our focus lies in providing CrateDB as a fully managed cloud service to our customers.”
Familiarity of SQL with the scalability and data flexibility of NoSQL
CrateDB is a distributed SQL database built on top of a NoSQL foundation. It combines the familiarity of SQL with the scalability and data flexibility of NoSQL.
As part of the new release, CrateDB 4.5 brings among, many other things, themain Enterprise features to the Community edition like End of the 3-node use limit, access to user management for multiple database users, access to user privileges configuration and database management with authentication. The new version includes further performance optimization, PostgreSQL tool compatibility, improved error messages,Deeper-level SQL support.
